438 entries
Technical analysis
Chart-based analysis — candlesticks, support and resistance, patterns, indicators, oscillators.
- Moving Average Crossover A trend-following strategy that generates buy and sell signals when a faster moving average crosses above or below a slower moving average.
- Moving Average Fan Pattern and Trend Signals Learn how moving average fan patterns signal trend strength when averages align and warn of reversal when they collapse.
- Moving Average Ribbon Explained A moving average ribbon stacks multiple MAs to visualize trend strength, direction, and turning points by showing when shorter-period lines diverge from longer ones.
- Moving Average Slope as a Trend Filter Measuring the angle or rate-of-change of a moving average confirms whether momentum is genuine by filtering out sideways noise and early-stage directional moves.
- Moving Averages as Dynamic Support and Resistance How price uses moving averages as dynamic support and resistance levels, why traders watch specific periods, and which timeframes create the strongest bounce zones.
- Multiple Timeframe Analysis in Technical Trading Learn how multiple timeframe analysis technique uses trend alignment across higher and lower timeframes to improve trade entry quality and reduce false signals.
- Multiple-Timeframe Support and Resistance Confluence Support resistance multiple timeframes confluence explains why levels visible on daily and weekly charts together carry more weight than single-timeframe levels.
- N-Pattern A three-segment price structure forming an N-shape that signals trend continuation after a partial retracement.
- Nasdaq vs NYSE Advance-Decline Line: Key Differences The Nasdaq and NYSE advance-decline lines often diverge because they track different market compositions. Understanding why reveals hidden health in each market.
- Negative Volume Index Technical indicator measuring price movement on declining volume days, contrasting with positive volume moves.
- New Highs and New Lows A count of stocks reaching 52-week price extremes; a breadth indicator revealing whether market strength is broad or concentrated in a few names.
- New Highs-New Lows Ratio: How to Interpret It Learn how to compute and interpret the new highs-new lows ratio as a market breadth indicator, including divergence signals and momentum implications.
- NYSE TICK Indicator The real-time count of NYSE-listed stocks ticking up minus ticking down, used as an intraday market-breadth pulse.
- OBV Divergence With Price: What It Signals About Accumulation OBV divergence with price indicates smart-money accumulation or distribution before reversals become visible.
- OBV Divergence: How to Spot It and What It Signals How on-balance volume diverges from price, revealing weakening momentum before a trend reversal materializes in the market.
- OBV On-Balance Volume Cumulative volume indicator that adds or subtracts daily volume based on price direction, revealing money flow conviction.
- OHLC bar chart An OHLC bar chart displays open, high, low, and close prices as vertical bars with horizontal ticks, an alternative to candlesticks for showing the same four data points.
- On-Balance Volume A cumulative volume indicator that adds or subtracts daily volume based on price direction, confirming trend strength or divergence.
- On-Balance Volume (OBV) Indicator On-balance volume (OBV) is a technical indicator that accumulates volume on up days and subtracts it on down days to confirm price trends or signal divergence.
- On-Neck and In-Neck Pattern Bearish continuation patterns where a recovery candle closes at or just inside a prior bearish candle's low—signalling the downtrend will resume after a brief bounce.
- Opening Range High and Low as Intraday Support and Resistance How the opening range as support and resistance establishes intraday price levels that traders use to anticipate breakouts and reversals.
- Options Max Pain as a Support and Resistance Level Options max pain is the stock price at which the largest number of expiring options would lose money, and some traders view it as a gravitational support or resistance.
- Outside Bar Pattern (Engulfing Bar) The outside bar pattern shows momentum shift as one bar's range fully engulfs the prior bar. A technical signal for trend reversals and continuations.
- Parabolic SAR A trailing-stop indicator that accelerates toward price as a trend strengthens, flipping direction when price reverses, marking potential exhaustion points.
- Parabolic SAR Acceleration Factor A parameter in Parabolic SAR that controls how aggressively the stop level accelerates toward price, tuning sensitivity to trend reversals.
- Pennant pattern A pennant pattern is a continuation pattern consisting of a sharp move (the pole) followed by a small triangle-shaped consolidation (the pennant), before resumption of the original trend.
- Pennant vs Symmetrical Triangle: Key Differences How pennant and symmetrical triangle chart patterns differ in duration, volume, formation speed, and how measured-move targets are calculated.
- Percentage Above Moving Average Across Multiple Timeframes How comparing the percentage of stocks above their 20-, 50-, and 200-day moving averages across timeframes reveals trend alignment and market breadth.
- Percentage of Stocks Above 50-Day Moving Average This breadth indicator measures the percentage of stocks trading above their 50-day moving average. Learn when it signals mid-term trend health or weakness.
- Percentage of Stocks Above Moving Average The share of index members trading above a key moving average, measuring the quality of market participation and trend sustainability.
- Percentage of Stocks Above the 200-Day Moving Average This breadth gauge measures what fraction of stocks are above their 200-day MA. Readings above 70% signal strength; below 30% suggest capitulation or opportunity.
- Percentage Price Oscillator A momentum indicator expressed as a percentage of the faster EMA, enabling direct price comparison across instruments of different scales.
- Piercing Line A two-candle bullish reversal where the second white candle closes above the midpoint of the prior bearish candle.
- Pipe Bottom Pattern Two adjacent long weekly bars protruding sharply downward, marking a short-term capitulation low and potential reversal entry.
- Pivot Point Levels Support and resistance levels calculated from the prior trading day's OHLC data.
- Point of Control as Support and Resistance Point of control — the price where most volume traded — acts as a magnet for price and a key level for technical traders.
- Point of Control in Volume Profile: Definition and Use The point of control (POC) is the price level with the highest traded volume in a session or range—a magnet for price reversion in volume profile analysis.
- Point-and-figure chart A point-and-figure chart displays price movement as a grid of X's (upward) and O's (downward), eliminating time and focusing on price reversals at specific levels.
- Positive Volume Index A technical indicator that isolates price movement on days when trading volume increases, used to identify trend direction and investor conviction.
- Price Action vs Indicators in Technical Analysis Price action vs indicators technical analysis compares raw price movement with derived oscillators, explaining the lag trade-off and where each approach wins.
- Price Channel Two parallel trendlines that bound price action and signal potential breakouts or mean-reversion opportunities.
- Price Channel Trading Strategy How to construct ascending, descending, and horizontal price channels, and trade channel breakouts and reversals for entries and exits.
- Price Distance From a Moving Average as a Trend-Exhaustion Signal How measuring how far price has stretched above or below a moving average flags overextended trends nearing mean-reversion pullback.
- Price Gap Four gap patterns—common, breakaway, runaway, exhaustion—and what each signals about trend continuation or reversal.
- Price Momentum Oscillator A smoothed rate-of-change indicator used to rank relative momentum across sectors, assets, and time periods.
- Price-Volume Divergence Technical signal showing potential trend reversal when price direction and volume flow move in opposite directions.
- Prior All-Time High as Resistance Why an asset's historical all-time high acts as powerful overhead resistance and what breaking above it signals for price momentum.
- Prior Earnings High as a Resistance Level Why the price peak reached during a prior earnings reaction often becomes a ceiling on the next approach, and how institutional memory anchors there.
- Prior High and Low Role Reversal How a broken resistance level becomes new support, and vice versa, once price returns to retest it.
- Psychological Price Levels in Technical Analysis How round numbers and large psychological figures attract buying and selling pressure, and why they interact with traditional support and resistance levels.
- Put-Call Ratio (Breadth) An options market sentiment gauge measuring the volume or open interest of puts relative to calls across the market.
- Put-Call Ratio Volume The ratio of trading volume in put options relative to call options, used as a market sentiment indicator.
- Range Midpoint as Support and Resistance How the midpoint of a trading range splits price into two halves and acts as both pivot point and bias indicator for range-bound trading.
- Rate of Change Indicator A momentum oscillator that expresses price movement as a percentage change over a fixed lookback period, revealing the pace of gains or losses.
- Rate of Change Zero Line: What a Cross Above or Below Means The rate of change indicator zero line marks where price equals its level n periods ago. Crossing it signals momentum direction shifts from momentum equilibrium to acceleration.
- Rectangle pattern A rectangle pattern is a chart formation with two flat horizontal lines forming a bounded consolidation zone, signalling eventual breakout in either direction.
- Rectangle Pattern Breakout Direction How to predict rectangle pattern breakout direction using volume clues, test count, and prior trend—reducing guesswork in a neutral consolidation setup.
- Rectangle Pattern vs Trading Range Rectangle pattern and trading range both show sideways price movement, but rectangles are continuation patterns with an implied breakout; trading ranges may have no directional bias or breakout.
- Relative Strength Index Formula Explained How is RSI calculated? Step-by-step walkthrough of the relative strength index formula with worked numeric examples.
- Relative Strength Line A ratio line charting a security's price against a benchmark, revealing whether it leads or lags the broader market.
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